Quantum Annealing

Sources and Further Reading: D-Wave Documentation: https://docs.dwavesys.com/docs/latest/c_gs_2.html Umesh Vazirani Lecture 14 Adiabatic Quantum Computation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFpNNrt-baE McGill University Physics 362 Notes by Professor Martin Grant: https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~grant/362/Typed_notes.pdf Harvard University Physics 171 notes by Jefferey Change: https://stanford.edu/~jeffjar/statmech/intro4.html Simulated Annealing From Scratch in Python by Jason Brownlee: https://machinelearningmastery.com/simulated-annealing-from-scratch-in-python/ Wolfram MathWorld Simulated Annealing Definition: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SimulatedAnnealing.html Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing: Theory and Practice by Catherine C. McGeoch: https://doi.org/10.2200/S00585ED1V01Y201407QMC008) Wikipedia definition of Heuristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic Wikipedia definition of Metaheuristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaheuristic Formal definition of Travelling Salesman Problem by Professor Marc Goetschalckx: https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~mgoetsch/cali/VEHICLE/TSP/TSP003__.HTM Wikipedia Definition of Travelling Salesman Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem Boixo et al. "Experimental Signature of Programmable Quantum Annealing": https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3067.pdf Vasil et al. "What is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02206.pdf Glover et al. "A Tutorial on Formulating and Using QUBO models" https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11538